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package org.apache.cassandra.distributed.api;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;

/**
 * A cross-version interface for delivering internode messages via message sinks.
 * <p>
 * Message implementations should be serializable so we could load into instances.
 */
public interface IMessage extends Serializable
{
    int verb();

    byte[] bytes();

    // TODO: need to make this a long
    int id();

    int version();

    InetSocketAddress from();

    default long expiresAtNanos() { return -1L; }
}
